When Margaretha Julia Voigtlander was born on 15 June 1855, in St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Christian August Ludwig Voigtlander, was 36 and her mother, Caroline Dorothee Wilhelmine Lehmann, was 36. She married John Paul Luft on 15 November 1877, in Geneva, Fillmore, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Geneva Township, Fillmore, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and Davis Township, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 13 November 1933, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States.